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Mainly Texas A&M Football past and present. Do have some other Sports Aggies but not alot.  Also Kenneth Davis because he was from my hometown.  

Trading has been great.  I see the same issues as others:  lack of response to trade requests being the most frustrating. Love getting these cards through trade.  I buy cards, as well, from retail businesses but the trade is fun.    Open to offers and willing to pay and accept payments for cards if it works out best.  PWE is fine.  Always fine tuning the collection and occasionally have to change the wantlist because of all of these variations that maybe I haven't updated yet.  My wantlist grows faster than my have list.  Thanks

Aggies I have the most cards of :

            Mike Evans 1206 = 13.8% sheesh  

            Ryan Tannehill 572 = 6.8% haven't really gone all out on him yet 

            Von Miller 454 = 6.8% same as Tannehill

            Greg Hill 340 = 74.4 % used to be more before all of the variations

            Quentin Coryatt 329 = 84.1% same as Hill 

            Aaron Glenn 295 = 72.1 % same as Hill and Coryatt

            Myles Garrett 295 + 9.3%

I'm the #1 collector of most of the Texas A&M Aggies. There a few that I am not and I will try to rectify that when I have the opportunity.  

I love this site for the database and the opportunity to contribute and acquire cards.  

Pittsburgh Steelers, Various Sets

Shipping: Cards shipped in PWE unless discussed. 

Trade Notes: I don't pull cards before making a trade offer. I will check all cards before sending. I will pull cards before accepting a trade. 

Condition-  All of my cards are sleeved. I collected  the 70's/80's cards as a kid, so I must check them before accepting a trade. 

Currently trying to buiild a 2020 Topps Series1,Series 2, Update Super set. I have all the base, concentrating on the inserts now. 
Im also working on a 1956 Topps Baseball Set. (Both white and gray backs for 1-180)

I PC Clayton Kershaw! 

Im spending too much money!! Haha

I collect only Saints cards and anything Archie Manning.  My prime collection is every regular Topps issued Saints card and all oddball Saints cards, ie. food, starting lineup, Tuff Stuff, playing cards type items.  I recently started collecting all card company Saints cards.  My new thing is collecting Shaq cards.

Trying to complete Topps team seats for the Astros. 

Baseball: Astros, Bagwell, Biggio, Altuve, Tucker, and Yordan.

Football: Dallas Cowboys and mascots for my kids.

Basketball: Tim Duncan

MMA: Chronicles, Cards with a belt.

Non-Sport:The Goonies and Harry Potter.

Open to any and all trades as long as both sides are content and feel like there's equal value. Cards do not have to be from the same era or sport. NOTE: Trading across eras doesn't mean all eras are equal. Largest trade so far has been 504 total cards.

Prefer auto for auto, patch for patch, and silver pack for silver pack.

For junk era baseball, I’m one of the sickos that wants the variations and copyright correct. 

I withdraw offers so that I can move on to other trades without worrying about someone accepting a trade for cards I no longer have. I try to give people at least a week, but if there’s been no communication other than the initial offer I’ll probably just pull it and look elsewhere; no hard feelings. If you see I pulled an offer, feel free to send a new one.

I will ship internationally. I use the USPS Global stamps so it will take 5-10 days to ship to Canada and 14-21 days overseas.

Rankings as of 2/5/23:

McNair: #27

Duncan: #193

Astros: #83

Bagwell: #88

Biggio: #74

Altuve: #36

Alvarez: #16

Bregman: #31

Tucker: #8

Javier: #4

Pena: #2

Ramping up baseball collections, still collecting football as well.  Also looking to finish off some older wrestling collections as I find them.

Currently looking to finish off collections more than anything else.  Also will start a new collection on a whim.  As you can guess, this is a dangerous combination.  Also seeking out certain Ohio State alumni, will expand to my own alma mater (University of Toledo) once more of my collections are set up.

Open trader--ask away, and I'll probably be glad to work with you.

Back at full strength, inquire at will.

Always trading never buying

Currently collecting all things Rockies, Nuggets, Broncos and Avalanche 

Sets trying finish.

2000-01 Topps basketball

2000 01 Bowman basketball 

1976 Topps baseball

2019 Topps S1 and S2

2020 Topps series 1

2021 Topps S2

I've been a baseball collector since the late 80's and love to trade.  I am primarily a set collector and belong to several online trading clubs.  My never ending goal is to collect all the regular issued Topps cards from 1952 to present.

My main collecting interests are vintage cards,  Minnesota Twins,  a few newer sets and Bert Blyleven.

Vintage sets:  1952 Topps, 1953 Topps, 1954 Bowman, 1954 Topps,  1955 Topps,  1956 Topps,  1957 Topps,  1963 Topps,  1967 Topps

Newer sets: 2004 Donruss,  2005 Donruss,  2012 Cooperstown.

* I prefer not to trade vintage cards (below 1976) for newer cards.

* Before accepting a proposal please make sure you have all of the cards.

I'm trying to liquidate the FST list, so let's trade with reasonable offers! It never hurts to ask for a little more.

I am building my 1971 topps baseball set right now. Looking for moderate condition (GD-VG-VGEX) and I will overtrade as I build my sets.

Yes: I'll sell (Venmo/Cashapp/Paypal).
Yes: I'll trade a huge pile of cards for a big ticket card.
Yes: I'll trade a big ticket card for a huge pile of cards.
Yes: I'll trade to Canada.
Yes: I'll trade vintage for new.
Yes: I'll trade new for vintage.
Yes: I'll trade between sports.
Yes: I'll probably throw that other card in too.

General Condition notes (unless otherwise noted. I'm happy to send photos if requested): 
• 60s-70s-80s (G-VG-EX-EXMT)
• 80s-90s-00s (EX-EXMT-NRMT)
• 00s-10s-20s (EXMT-NRMT-MT)

Cards come from a smoke-free/pet-free/Subway-bread/patchouli free home. I like to think I have all the (.) and (*) variations catalogued, but let me know if these are critically important to you. 

Sent trades to 46/50 states. All 50 before I die, maybe? Where are you, AK, UT, VT, WY?

PC is Miguel Cabrera, Spencer Torkelson and Cal Eldred.

I *DO NOT* buy cards via TCDB, only trade.  Set Builder primarily, to include insert subsets.  I try to trade cards from like-sets.....if you or I am trading for a premium card type, I expect to offer and be offered the same in return.  Please do not use my inventory as a poaching opportunity.  I get it, you have the card types that you like to collect, but so does everyone.  If I have 3 Ronald Acuna's of the same set as doubles, don't even attempt at getting all 3 from me.....I too need trade bait.

For recent and current year trades, I'd like to trade for like sets, Archives for Archives, Heritage for Heritage, Topps Gallery for Topps Gallery, let's help each other complete our sets!  If you propose something otherwise, I will likely decline. Thanks for your interest.

***I ONCE AGAIN HAVE A BUNCH OF TOP LOADERS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE OR TRADE.  IF YOU NEED SOME, HIT ME UP***

Now the #1 collector of Ryan Klesko cards on TCDB!  With more to come!

PC: 

High priority: Ryan Klesko, Dale Murphy, Dave Winfield, Dominique Wilkins, Kenyon Yovan, Michael Conforto, Adley Rutschman, Nick Madrigal, Trevor Larnach, Steven Kwan, Cadyn Grenier, Drew Rasmussen, Gary Payton II, Jacob Melton, Travis Bazzana, Trent Caraway, Gavin Turley, Garret Forrester, Will Frisch, Cooper Hjerpe, Justin Boyd, Mitch Canham, Kevin Abel, Nahshon or Rezjohn Wright, Terry Baker, Christian Chamberlain, Gary Payton, Ethan Thompson, Darwin Barney, Damien Martinez, Jam Griffin, Jake Luton, Jermar Jefferson, Hamilcar Rashed Jr, Luke Musgrave, Anthony Gould, Kitan Oladapo, A.C Green "In the Name" letter cards, Jade Carey.

Lower priority: Junior Seau, some Bo Jackson, Eric Lindros, Jordan Poyer, Mike Hass, TJ Houshmandzadeh, Jacoby Ellsbury, Steven Jackson, Nick Barnett, Matt Moore, Ochocinco/Chad Johnson, Sean Mannion, Johnny Hekker, Sam Gaviglio, Matt Boyd, any Oregon State alum/player in any sport (male or female).

PLEASE SEND TRADE OFFERS.  It's my favorite part of the hobby.  Always willing to negotiate a good deal for both sides.  One card, or 10+ cards.  I'm fine with any size.  USA & Canada only, unless the card is significant enough to me to ship overseas.

I do NOT collect/keep any other cards of any other players/teams.  If the card isn't a unique card to me of one of my guys above, it's not something I will keep.  I don't want duplicates either.  I'll trade it or sell it if it's something I think I can move; otherwise, no thanks.  But I DO want any card of any of my PC guys if I don't already have it.  My trade/sell and want/wish lists are updated, so if it's not on those lists, it's highly unlikely that I'm interested in it, or I already own it.

Fan of: all OSU sports, Braves, Red Sox, Blazers, Chargers, Flyers, Timbers, Tottenham FC.

Goal for VINTAGE ONLY CARDS (condition NOT very important...just no rips/tears, no writing on the front...some creases ok...not really concerned with how the back looks): Hank Aaron (preferably in a Milwaukie uniform, but not required), Mickey Mantle pre-1969 (earlier the better), Babe Ruth any vintage year, Joe DiMaggio any year, Lou Gehrig any year, Ted Williams pre-1955, Jackie Robinson any year, Shoeless Joe any year, Jimmie Foxx any year, Satchel Paige any year, and Stan Musial pre-1960.  For basketball, would like a Alcindor while in Milwaukie, early Doctor J, Oscar, early Magic/Bird, Bill Russell, David Thompson, Cousy, Mikan, Moses & maybe a couple others.  Prefer to stay as cheap as possible, but for the right card might go a little higher...obviously Mantle/Ruth/Joe D/Wilt and those types would be more.  Again, condition I know won't be great at these prices.  I now have a Hank, Mantle, Jackie, Clemente, Yogi, Bob Gibson, Ernie Banks, Sandy Koufax, Mays, Jerry West, Wilt, Alcindor, Maravich and Gervin at these levels, and a couple of Ted Williams, that I'm very happy with.  But the more the merrier if the price is right!

• I will typically send cards via PWE unless the quantity is above 20 and then I will send BMWT.  If you wish a smaller trade to be sent BMWT, please let me know & adjust the trade accordingly. 

TCDB rankings as of 8/20/23:

• Klesko (1st) - 950 unique cards
• Dale Murphy (8th) - 542 unique
• Winfield (5th) - 640 unique
• Conforto (1st) - 448 unique
• Madrigal (1st) - 416 unique
• Rutschman (1st) - 159 unique
• Kenyon Yovan (1st) - 37 unique
• Larnach (1st) - 202 unique
• Cadyn Grenier (1st) - 93 unique
• Drew Rasmussen (1st) - 75 unique
• Jacoby Ellsbury (10th) - 130 unique
• Wally Backman (335th) - 34 unique
• Kevin Abel (1st) - 32 unique
• Steven Kwan (2nd) - 58 unique
• Darwin Barney (4th) - 49 unique
• Beau Philip (1st) - 9 unique
• Cooper Hjerpe (1st) - 65 unique
• Jacob Melton (1st) - 27 unique
• Justin Boyd (1st) - 16 unique
• Christian Chamberlain (1st) - 18 unique
• Dominique Wilkins (2nd) - 440 unique
• Steven Jackson (13th) - 99 unique
• Brandin Cooks (3rd) - 111 unique
• Gary Payton II (1st) - 32 unique
• Jacquizz Rodgers (2nd) - 38 unique
• Hamilcar Rashed Jr (1st) - 25 unique
• Jake Luton (1st) - 64 unique
• Jermar Jefferson (1st) - 69 unique
• Isaiah Hodgins (1st) - 27 unique
• Matt Moore (2nd) - 17 unique
• Markus Wheaton (14th) - 22 unique
• Jordan Poyer (1st) - 28 unique
• TJ Houshmandzadeh (27th) - 32 unique
• Chad Johnson (18th) - 83 unique
• Junior Seau (64th) - 100 unique
• Sean Mannion (1st) - 50 unique
• Mike Hass (2nd) - 20 unique
• Stephen Paea (2nd) - 13 unique
• Steven Nelson (2nd) - 8 unique
• Ryan Nall (2nd) - 7 unique

VERY willing to trade/negotiate.  I live to  trade...send me ALL trade requests!  Would prefer trades to purchases, although I know my PC is pretty limited in the grand scheme of things.  Just got back to the hobby in 2020 after approx 30 years out of it, and about 20 years after selling off 99% of it to pay for our wedding.  I forgot how much I loved it!

Trading on pause while on vacation

Still working on completing Topps Baseball sets 1960,1969, and 1970.   I have complete sets from 1971 to 1981 But I need to upgrade some as I sort through them.Trying to complete Reds team sets from any year, have most of the 70s covered and am working backwards.  Have a good start on the 60s.  Partial Reds sets from 1980-2020 are sitting in boxes waiting to be sorted.  I have alot of reds duplicates including specials/inserts for former reds stars (Bench, Morgan, etc,)

Also working on modern base sets and some inserts as they catch my interest.

Still working on updating my collection in the database.

“The Bernie Williams Collector”

NY Yankees-NY Giants-Chicago Bulls- Ny Liberty

Trade notes: I usually do not pull cards before making a trade offer but will pull them before accepting one.

-Trades need to be worth the postage 

For base sets like 2024 Topps, only looking to add them as envelope fillers or in bulk trades  

-I don't trade parallels, rarer inserts, short prints, or autos for base (no matter how many base cards you put into your offer).  For Serial numbered cards, i am looking for serial numbered cards in return or something hard to find. 

Some Set Collecting, but I primarily enjoy player collecting.

Who I Collect: Mainly NY Yankees, NY Giants, Chicago Bulls, Some NY Rangers and some NY Liberty. Ranks as of 2/27/2024

Baseball: 

• Bernie Williams-898 (#8)
• Alex Rodriguez - 528 (#24)
• Aaron Judge- 410 (#11)
• Giancarlo Stanton- 492 (#2)
• Juan Soto - 220 (#14) 
• Gerrit Cole - 237 (#5)

Football:

• Eli Manning -572 (#4)
• Saquon Barkley- 285 (#1)
• Aaron Rodgers - 396  (#7)
• Julio Jones - 391 (#1)
• Tee Higgins - 156 (#1)
• Victor Cruz - 110 (#3)
• Hakeem Nicks - 90 (#3)
• Brandon Jacobs - 94 (#3)
• Ike Hilliard - 137 (#6)
• Amani Toomer - 190 (#10)

Basketball: 

• Scottie Pippen - 308 (#32)
• Sabrina Ionescu - 20 (#3)
• Dennis Rodman - 246 (#20)
• Michael Jordan - 188 

I am a set collector, all sports, all manufacturers. Once I start a set, my goal is to finish it. I do prefer to work on sets that I have already started before starting new sets.

As I slowly get my collection catalogued here, I am also working on creating checklists for my sets using Google Sheets, and I am willing to share these templates with anyone that is interested.

I am creating grades for all of my "For Sale/Trade" cards. I am sticking with 4 grades. "Very Good" means that centering is pretty good and there are no issues with card wear with the possible exception of one dinged corner. "Good" means the centering might be off but all borders can be seen, there could be 2 or 3 dinged corners. "Fair" and "Poor" will have an explanation. For 1980 to the present, I will only indicate grades if the condition is good, fair or poor with an explanation. Otherwise assume the condition is excellent or better.

On my wantlist, if I have a condition indicated (EX or VG), this means that I am looking to find a card that will replace one in my collection that is in fair or poor condition.

Collects: NFL, MLB, NBA, College Football, and College Basketball cards from the 2000's to present. 

Favorite Teams: Denver Broncos, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Rockies, and Colorado Buffaloes.

I'm a set collector, so I accept all kinds of trades. I love trading so send me smaller or larger trade request.

FYI - most 90s cards are in storage in ATL, so if those are part of a deal it may take a little more time.

Top Priorities:

• Barry Bonds
• Penny Hardaway
• Atlanta Braves - Acuna, Chipper, Maddux, Smoltz, Glavine, Albies, Riley, etc. (...somewhat Freddie)
• Atlanta Hawks - Trae, JJ, DJM, current roster
• Former GT athletes - Chris Bosh, Calvin Johnson

Secondary Wants:

• NBA superstars - Jokic, LeBron, Curry, Giannis, Kobe, Jordan, Shaq
• MLB superstars - Trout, KGJ, Mookie, Soto, Tony Gwynn, Frank Thomas

Other players loosely collect:

• NBA - DWade, Dame, Kawhi, D Mitchell, David Robinson, Nash, Dirk, Chuck, Vince
• MLB - Ripken Jr., Kershaw, Harper, Judge

Only really collect sets. No single player collections or themes. Finishing off my sets from the 90s, when I last collected, but also taking the plunge into some recent stuff. 
There are an overwhelming number of modern parallel sets and insert sets out there.

Currently collecting:

Baseball:  1995 Leaf & Cornerstones, 1995 Upper Deck & Special Edition, 1996 UD & Lovero inserts.

2021/2022/2023/2024 Topps Flagship and Update Series and some inserts sets. Giving the 2024 Purple holofoil parallel set a go (Why?)

2020 Topps Heritage. Couldn’t resist the first set I collected as a kid. The originals are long gone but the memory isn’t. Down to the SPs.

 
Basketball:  1995-96 UD, 1996-97 UD, & 1997-98 Upper Deck.

Football:   1994 Stadium Club, 1994 Upper Deck Pro Bowl inserts, 1995 Upper Deck & Special Edition 

Hockey:  1994-95 Pinnacle, 1995-96 UD, 1996-97 UD Superstar Showdown, 2021-22 O-Pee-Chee Platinum & some inserts, 2021-22 UD base and Honor Roll inserts/Black Diamond Retro inserts.

I also have an unopened box of 93-94 Upper Deck hockey and a dozen packs of 92-93 Ultra hockey that I would be happy to trade for similar vintage hockey, baseball, football, or basketball. Better to open something you don’t have instead of something you already do.

I am trying to put together a “Frankenset” of 2021-22 OPC Platinum Hockey parallels. First time effort at one of these. Welcoming sales or trades along those lines. Much appreciated!

I mostly trade but also buy and sell. The central challenge is to get the right cards to the right people. If cards don't arrive, I do my best to make it right. PWE preferred, multiple if necessary. I will respond to all offers promptly. Typically, I will withdraw proposals after one week, as no response after this time usually signifies a decline, but I will message if I cancel.

936 completed trades and counting...

Thanks to all who have participated worldwide. It really is amazing to see your collection evolve. 

I started collecting baseball cards as a kid in the mid to late-80s and collected them through the early 90s. I started out collecting them with my old man, and I look back on those days wistfully. We'd sit up at night and put together sets and lists of our missing cards and that was a great thing to share with him. At some point, though, I outgrew wanting to share that experience with him, choosing instead to share the hobby with my friends. Then I started to notice girls and found other things to spend money on. I boxed up all the cards and traded the innocence of collecting baseball cards for other, less wholesome pursuits.

At some point over the course of the next 2 and a half decades, I somehow outgrew the nomadic life, became an adult, got married, found a permanent place to live, and jumped on the wildest ride of my life: fatherhood. In a fit of cleaning out my old room to make space for her new grandkids (my sister's kids at the time), my mother transported all of the cards from my childhood bedroom and brought them to live with me. To the attic they went, and in the attic they stayed for the better part of the last decade, hidden away and silent.

While working from home during quarantine, I repurposed the attic into a makeshift office to hide from my two kids, who were also at home, and who, despite my and my wife's best efforts, have no conception of privacy or quiet, and care very little for anyone else's productivity--especially when it comes at the expense of their most immediate desire. Stuck in the attic, armed with a laptop, and facing long days of working in solitude, there sat my baseball cards staring back at me, summoning me from a place and time long since gone. In a moment of sports deprived weakness, I answered their call and opened up a couple of boxes to look at my old collection. Glorious!

Within days of our local economy's soft reopening, I found a local card shop, escaped my attic, drove to it, donned a mask, and walked in to buy some new cards. I quickly learned that the days of the $0.50 pack had passed me by--quite a while ago it seems. Undeterred by the effects of what seemed to be hyper-inflation in an economy I had ignored for some 27 years, I left with not one, but two BOXES of baseball cards. Upon opening up the many packs of new cards, I discovered the advent of the insert card's prevalence, and that, unlike unicorns, autographed cards actually DO exist in packs (helllooo Pete Alonso!). Fascinated, and in need of boxes in which to store the cards and toploaders in which to protect them, it was back to the card shop for me. A couple of carboard boxes, a few bags of penny sleeves and some toploaders just couldn't be the extent of my second excursion. So, much like an addict in search of a fix, it was another box of cards for me. 

But, this new lifestyle of big spending on cards I knew nothing about would prove to be unsustainable as my wife and I are also tasked with feeding, clothing, and sheltering (in place) these two children we created. Alas, it was back to the attic for me, and back to shuffling through all of my old cards, sorting out the commons from the hall of famers, sorting out the steroid users from the clean players. Thus, a new collection was born. Hall of Famers. Those are the cards I want to collect.

But, I needed a mechanism for organizing what I had, and what I wanted to get. When I bought my last pack of cards as something other than a novelty back in 1993, the internet was not yet a thing, at least not one to which I had access. I thought: Surely there is some mechanism online to help me organize these cards, and give me reason to continue sorting through this mess. And, after minimal searching on the worldwide web, I discovered TCDB. What a brave new world this is.

I look forward to getting back into the hobby. But, for now, I am going to stick to trying to collect Hall of Famers, mostly vintage (which, I have learned, is now a word in this industry that describes me). I'm less concerned with a card's grading, centering, corners, or condition than I am with the name and face on it. I'm not in this as an investment; I'm in it for an escape. Hopefully when this little 2 year-old ages a few more years, he'll begin to enjoy collecting baseball cards as much as his old man did once upon a time. If so, I hope to bequeath to him a worthwhile collection and to share the experience with him for as long as he'll have me.